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hollande to do is raise your hand but

the movie is enlarged by looking for

nemo

there is a part where is the marlin

potato where he loses almost all the

Hope to find encouragement and tells you

to dori and had promised that never

he would let nothing happen to him in

Estoril responds with one of the

most powerful phrases of all the

Ferrara movie promise if you do not leave

anything happen naught

will happen and today I come to tell you everything

that happened to me because he had

the courage and courage to take

opportunities that changed my life

these opportunities were thanks to

travel and I ‘m not talking about any

tourist trip or anything

speaking in the exchanges I did

three exchanges

the first one was in germany he had 16

years I was super excited because

I went with two of my best friends were going

boarding sport and going to live a life

without permission already pass it to me incredible and

it was not like that

I had a terrible time Jesus you get to a

new place and you are faced with things that

I had never had to face is they are

different routines

it’s different people it ‘s a climate

totally different and what to me more

hit me was the language I did not know

speak German because the spoken and what

do well program afraid to talk anything

I’m afraid of making a mistake that makes fun of me

then I turned to this super girl

Scared silent begin to hide

behind everything that gives me comfort that

my friends were books was the

food I became a person that I am not

I realized that I hated like people

I saw myself but above all I could not stand

as I had already myself and so I went

ten months of the exchange

until one day I decided that everything

it was in my head and I had to

leave all insecurity aside and

That’s when I started to enjoy

and start enjoying this country so

father also everything was combined with that

it was summer the sun rises

the people are happy and totally

infected his happiness but he ended up very

I realized quickly that fear

The only thing he did was lose the

time and that was germany comes back to

Mexico spent the years I entered the

university and then that’s where I

they taught that I was not locke

all this that we live something real there

four stages in a culture shock

because they taught me very simple

start at the honeymoon stage

where everything is new and beautiful everything

thrills

then he went to the crisis stage where

it is not new then it starts

compare all the things that are good

There is not so bad and they are good in your

country always very many sexenio then

move to the acceptance stage is where

start doing as some relationships

but they are not strong enough

as to start enjoying and the

best stage of integration where it is already

a routine that you feel comfortable

enjoying everything in this moment I gave myself

that everyone spent so

I had the only thing we had

we control was to know how much

time was going to last each stage and I decided

retry now to the area well

now nothing would happen

all the time in this stage of crisis

as a national

tomorrow I would have super fast

day pass maybe difficult but I’m going to

enjoy it then I saw a country

completely different that it was not so

cold like germany is going to go to

Latin America

I wanted to learn a new language and the

perfect country was brazil that could

go wrong is the country of the sun is my

country of the beach the country of the samba

who was going to wait for it to reach

coritiba which is one of the most

Europeanized and cold Brazil but that

I did not have all the fortune to find

an amazing family with me and about

all against eight friends who screams

he could call my brothers

everything was an adventure with them every month

It was a different trip

we went to almost deserted islands we went to

the falls of foz de iguazú

we arrived even when we did a

walk in the middle of the jungle during

nine hours to get from a city to

other

we arrived so united last month

we decided that we were going to live

together all to the same department

but as all exchange was going to end

and everyone has to return to their

country when I return to Mexico

I learned from the fifth stage they remember

of the stages that I said good there’s a

of jihad and talk that is when

you go back to your country and you do not feel

adapted from that routine

I was sure he had lived the

best part of my life and I was already

behind me and it was the first time a

level where I realized that I was

living in a place physically but

I had my head in another

It was then where best friend of Brazil

He told me that I could go through

exchange with her to her country to

Portugal regretted not burying its head

I removed the tec where and

studied told me from the beginning

the last semester I can not tell you

exchange was the last semester

where I had the only chance to go

It was my last chance to live the

best stage of my life and I was not going to leave

what would happen to me

They put me in a lot of obstacles, they told me

could not I had to fight a lot

but I did it and I left unlike

Brazil I from Portugal and the port in

city ​​where I went I did not know anything but

it does not matter much either because I knew

what was going to come

look for foreign students who are

my accomplices returned as they were

In Brazil you arrive and you will not find there

even though I was living with my

best friend and with your family that

They made to feel part of them

I felt very lonely and started doing things

who is not used to doing that

it was based on the sun to go out alone little by little

was learning to enjoy my loneliness and

I think that this change was thanks to frida

a Mexican restaurant that I found

anything that typical Mexican coach

contraction in the explorer was a

authentic mexican calls me a lot

the attention between and without thinking I asked

work after 15 minutes of

interview they hired me just like

you are thinking good a job

as a waitress is not even the great thing

but for me it was a dream

the beginning of a dream that always

I had to promote my culture

through my biggest passion that is

the food in the city that they make

also the followers of the state

I had such a great happiness that neither

he even went to give from here

everything went up and I realized that

I had to do things not because the

other vision but for me because I

I wanted to do them if I wanted to go to

surf I will get around if I wanted to go

to ride a bike I was going to ride a bike

If I wanted to sit in a park to see

old people play cards

he did little by little you see people pulling

and I lived many very different days but

I have all lived intensely but

as all exchange was going to end and

track after record of more exchanges

spent in Germany had already learned

that he did not have to be afraid of

Brazil showed me that it’s not about

place but of the people with whom

you do not share and even though you do not

nothing would change what he lived in Brazil

porto was doing much better because

I had not only met people

incredible and had found a

second family

I started to know the same

this brings me to my conclusions that are

three number one because we always have

to flip back and think of our

best moment of our life in the

gone and I do not want it to be my past

I want it to be my present and then

I returned to Mexico decided here to

live every day as if they were

exchange arrived here four months and

I have traveled more than 77 different places

and I did not have to go very far nor

he has not even had to ask for days in the

work but I decided that I realized

that the exchanges are over but your life

follow

conclusion number two the point of

leave comfort zone

That’s what gave me travel and travel

opened your eyes traveling forces you to do

a change and make a change is where

you can discover yourself point

number 3

the change is difficult and will happen

they ‘re going to be afraid they’re going to put all

the things they want sometimes not

even we ourselves are the ones

we put things

our dads I had the fortune of

that my parents for more fear than

they had never stopped me and in the end

everything everything is worth it

no matter how many times I tell them or

how many shafts tell you to leave your

console and comfort

do not be afraid live if you do not do it

themselves

they will never learn it and returned to the

phrase to give

if we do not let anything happen to us then

nothing will happen to us thanks

[Applause]

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